Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-380) and index.

Part I: "She can handle them, and that's why they're going to take her." -- February 1, 1945 -- February 2, 1945 -- February 2, 1945 -- February 2, 1945 -- February 2-3, 1945 -- February 3, 1945 -- February 3, 1945 -- Part II: "As if . . . the Conference isn't so much more important than anything else." -- February 4, 1945 -- February 4, 1945 -- February 5, 1945 -- February 5, 1945 -- February 6, 1945 -- February 6-7, 1945 -- February 8, 1945 -- February 8, 1945 -- February 9-10, 1945 -- February 10-11, 1945 -- Part III: "All this, and more I have with me forever." -- April 12-July 27, 1945 -- After Yalta.

Tensions during the Yalta Conference in February 1945 threatened to tear apart the wartime alliance among Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin just as victory was close at hand. Catherine Grace Katz uncovers the dramatic story of the three young women who were chosen by their fathers to travel with them to Yalta, each bound by fierce family loyalty, political savvy, and intertwined romances that powerfully colored these crucial days. Kathleen Harriman was a champion skier, war correspondent, and daughter of U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union Averell Harriman. Sarah Churchill, an actress-turned-RAF officer, was devoted to her brilliant father, who depended on her astute political mind. Roosevelt’s only daughter, Anna, chosen instead of her mother Eleanor to accompany the president to Yalta, arrived there as keeper of her father’s most damaging secrets. Situated in the political maelstrom that marked the transition to a post-war world, The Daughters of Yalta is a remarkable story of fathers and daughters whose relationships were tested and strengthened by the history they witnessed and the future they crafted together. —publisher.